tocrack

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English tocraken (“to cause a cracking sound by breaking something with a lot of force; to fracture”), from Old English cracian (“to make a cracking sound, crack”), from Proto-Germanic *krakōną (“to crack, crackle, shriek”), equivalent to to- +‎ crack. === Verb === tocrack (third-person singular simple present tocracks, present participle tocracking, simple past and past participle tocracked) (transitive, obsolete) To crack, fracture, fissure; to break with a cracking sound. [from the early 14th c. to the late 15th c.] ==== References ==== The Middle English Dictionary